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Making Wikipedia accessible to screenreaders

Hey, Graham! Um, I don't know if you'll remember me, we've talked a bit, but, anyway...

I've taken over the Tech report on the Signpost. As you can imagine, not every week has a huge new technical achievement, so I've decided to use tutorials to fill in any days that don't have major tech news to headline with.

So, er, we come to my request. I know you use a screenreader to edit Wikipedia; so, presuming there are things that users should be doing but might not be, would you be willing to write a short report - three to ten paragraphs, say - on making Wikipedia easier to use with screenreaders?

In any case, thank you.

Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:52, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Hey, Graham,

Could I possibly have it by Tuesday? Publication's supposed to be on Wednesday. Thank you so much for doing this, by the way. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 12:56, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Right. I've copied it to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-09-04/Technology report, and have written a brief introduction (feel free to edit the introduction as you see fit). One thing that strikes me is that the first two of your suggestions seem like they should be fixable by bots. I wonder how hard it would be to get that done?

Oh, also, I've archived my talk page - it was getting a bit excessively long. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:53, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

No worries about the unarchiving. I could see some issues with the bot, but, at the same time, I suspect it should be largely uncontroversial. In particular, I can see no reason why {{TOCright}} at the start of an article should not be simply removed with a note saying this is for accessibility and consistency reasons. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 16:14, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Agreed. It might need a bit of a discussion to get agreement to push forwards, but I think it'll be fine. One other possibility might be to sort out some sort of hidden section header that could be used when the table of contents does need to go before the lead. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 04:14, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Just to note, I did see the post, just was waiting for other comments. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:03, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Digimon

Hello, I've noticed that you indefinitely semi-protected Digimon. However, the article has not seen too much activity in a while, and in fact, for the month of August at least, there were several constructive edits from IPs. Besides, WP:PP states that indefinite semi-protection should only be applied to articles with a continuous level of vandalism. At the moment, I don't think the level of non-constructive editing justifies semi-protection, let alone indefinite. So would it be alright to either: A. shorten the protection to at least 1 month, B. implement pending changes protection, or C. unprotect the article? Thanks and happy editing. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 15:01, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: Thanks, the setting to indefinite was more out of anger (about the obvious vandalism staying for such a long time to such a high-profile article) than logic or policy, and I've changed the expiry date to one month. I didn't want to take up the other solution of me watchlisting the page because I have no knowledge or interest in the subject, therefore I probably wouldn't be the best person to keep an eye on the page. Graham87 00:30, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Foreign languages in file talk pages

Sorry to bother you again, but I've been looking through Recent Changes recently and found these four file talk pages:

1. File talk:Meira Kumar.jpg
2. File talk:Mukesh Ambani.jpg
3. File talk:WaterboardWithCanKhmerRouge.jpg
4. File talk:PhpBB forum.png

The first two are the same, and were done by 117.201.163.123. The last two are the same, and were done by 120.35.92.54.

In addition, both of them also did the same thing to other pages (which I haven't managed to list here). George8211 ^{t c} 18:28, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Help over signature

Thank you, Graham, for your kind note over signatures. It is something that has baffled and infuriated me until your helpful suggestion. Thanks again! Hors-la-loi 13:34, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

What digital incompetence! What failure to use logic instead of intuition! Thanks for your patience! --Hors-la-loi (talk) 17:41, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

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Disruptive IP

Hi Graham, remember 109.154.83.250 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)? They're back as 109.154.90.41 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and I just blocked them for 72 hours. You blocked that IP for six months, but they seem like regular (voluntary or involuntary) IP hoppers to me. If there's a good reason for a longer block, please adjust. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 13:50, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

@Drmies:Thanks for letting me know. My fairly long block length was more out of paranoia than anything; let's keep your block at 72 hours and see what happens. Graham87 14:12, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

See, I don't know anything about proxies, so I thought maybe that's what was going on. I went through a bunch of articles to see if there were more but didn't find any. Is it worthwhile posting on ANI already to see if anyone else has seen this editor, and maybe get a range block? Drmies (talk) 14:17, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Probably couldn't hurt. I'm not very experienced with IP ranges and such like, either. Graham87 14:30, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Done. I made us look dumb (I'm good at that) so the smart people will be tricked into helping us and solving our problem. Peace Be Unto You And Your Rollback Tool, Drmies (talk) 14:49, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Sounds good. The mass rollback tool makes "Listen to Wikipedia" sound ten times more awesome than normal, if that's possible. Just a tip for next time. :-) Graham87 15:01, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Wow. Drmies (talk) 15:53, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Table formatting

Hi Graham,

The following small table comes from Preachers' Daughters#Episodes. There are two copies. Do they both behave the same for you?

Original table:

Season		Episodes	Season Premiere	Season Finale
	1	10	March 12, 2013 (2013-03-12)	May 14, 2013 (2013-05-14)

With slightly modified formatting:

Season		Episodes	Season Premiere	Season Finale
	1	10	March 12, 2013 (2013-03-12)	May 14, 2013 (2013-05-14)

They look exactly the same on my screen, but VisualEditor (or Parsoid) believes that there is an extra, blank row at the bottom of the original table. I wanted to make sure that they are identical in a screen reader. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 04:26, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

@Whatamidoing (WMF): Thanks for the message. Yes, they behave exactly the same here. Graham87 06:11, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

@Whatamidoing (WMF): That is because in wiki syntax, there is an extra row. |- means "start a new row". In the PHP parser, this row is automatically removed, but parsoid shows it, and then VE becomes confused, because it is not expecting this. This is bugzilla:53665 —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:02, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply, Graham.

Yes, I know what's causing it. The problem is deciding what to do about it. I'd contemplated a one-time fix to proper/minimal formatting, but there are more than 100,000 instances of this needless "start a new row" syntax just in articles, and almost half a million when you add in talk pages and the like. Before I gave up on fixing them all, I wanted to make sure that it wasn't creating problems for screen readers. Asking Graham is the fastest and most reliable way for me to find out whether something makes screen readers behave badly. Since it's not, my recommendation is going to be for VisualEditor to cope with it gracefully, rather than to clean up the mess. If that stray bit of code had screwed up Graham's pages, then naturally I'd be making the opposite recommendation. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:45, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Sorry I had not read your user page

Although I still disagree with your removal of specific content from 1971, I had no idea, not having read your userpage til now, that my poor choice of metaphor could have been offensive. In fact I am wonderfully surprised to find out now that technology makes all this possible. I hope I have not caused additional hard feelings and am glad you are here overall. Thanks, Til Eulenspiegel /talk/ 02:06, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

THEN Y=I PURGD4MYDISABILITY??

IV RSI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-09-04/Technology_report140.117.120.229 (talk) 08:30, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're asking me at all. Graham87 08:46, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

He or she posted on my page as well. Something about being purged, but I can't find any reverted edits to the article or talk page. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 10:23, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Ta, interesting. Graham87 10:48, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

You get a Gold Star for that one

		Gold Star for the Day
		Just reading through the thread at WP:BOTREQ and saw your comment about the Depends diff and laughed my b u t t off. I was laughing so hard when I read it, I almost needed some Depends. Anyhoo, I had to give you a gold star for that one. Thanks for making my day. 64.40.54.181 (talk) 05:18, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Hehe, glad to be of service ... and thanks for the star. Graham87 05:34, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

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Re: Infobox position

Thanks. I'll do it that way from now on. InnocuousPseudonym (talk) 02:13, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Joy/Shallot

Thanks for catching that, I had caught it initially and thought it was a weird situation but barring something to make me think different I assumed it was a simple rename. I just checked both manually kept 'crat logs and some diffs from 2004 and I think I figured out what happened for the most part. I've expanded the reasoning at User:Moe Epsilon/admins#Caveats. Regards, — Moe Epsilon 10:39, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Cool, thanks, very weird indeed! I've fixed a couple of things on the description. Graham87 11:01, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestions

Thank you very much Graham87. Based on my specialization and experience, I will try to do edits to make Wikipedia a source of more authentic and reliable articles in the areas of civil engineering and related disciplines.Ska1962 (talk) 18:52, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

September 2013

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(talk page stalker) User:Omkar1234, I see no problem with any of Graham87's edits to Yellow Fever, and find your choice of a warning template to be inappropriate and a little disrespectful. Check out at an editor's experience and edit history before splattering their talk page with templates over quite minor (and in this case correct) grammatical corrections and copyediting. --Lexein (talk) 15:55, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Lexein. @Omkar1234:, as I was about to write at your talk page: please do not revert established users edits without a very compelling reason, and don't template the regulars. Graham87 15:58, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Discussion about collapsing music track lists

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Why Must You Stamp my IP on my Posts?

Graham87, I do not understand why you keep stamping and hyperlinking my IP on my posts. They all clearly bear my signature, yet you say, bewilderingly, that they are unsigned. The reason I substitute letters in my signature, clearly explaining it, is because Kww codes official Wikipedia abuse filters to stop me from signing my username. Yes, unbelievably, no IP editor on Wikipedia may utter my inoffensive username without his or her edit being blocked. As well, as you are well aware, your hyperlinking of my IP is an invitation for the idly curious and the snoops to go and run "Geolocate" and "TraceIP" and the rest of those cyberstalking tools on me. I don't understand why you want to subject me to that. I am asking you to go and undo your own handywork at Jimbo's page currently and in his archive where you did it previously. This is C o l t o n C o s m i c. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.236.6.74 (talk) 10:22, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

I am most concerned about the timestamp, so people can figure out where your message fits into the picture chronologically. Your IP address is visible in the page history, as you well know. I am not going to bow down to the demands of a self-admitted block evader. Graham87 10:51, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Lang template

Hey Graham! I hope you're well. I have a question related to WT:FAC#Non-English text in featured articles. Should I be putting {{lang}} templates around all of the non-English ship names in South American dreadnought race? I.e. things like "Minas Geraes", "Rivadavia", "Almirante Latorre", "Capitan O'Brien", or "Sultân Osmân-ı Evvel". Where's the cutoff here? Thanks! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 17:29, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

:Hey Ed, thanks for letting me know. I've replied at the linked FAC discussion. Graham87 06:53, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Trayning

Interesting - the news is on facebook about the trayning railway line closing, but nothing in the news services that i could find... sorry about the WAGR ref - need to find a good Trove wiki ref for the annual report, simply trying to do too much commons uploading.. cheers and thanks for clenaing it up satusuro 15:19, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

The trayning story hit the west this am - as for the Mundaring weir gravity tram from the dell - there is an earlier article by ed woodland somewhere about the same operation, not sure where - it must have been hell... satusuro 09:58, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Help with an AfD history merge?

Hi! I'm asking for a little help since you seem to know how to do the history merge stuff. The AfD in question is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fluffy bunny (2nd nomination). It basically closed with the article in question getting deleted and the disambiguation page moved to the main page for Fluffy bunny. Pertinent information from the article was merged to the article Etymology of Wicca. One of the users suggested that the histories get merged, but I'm not entirely sure how to do that. I was just going to delete the article in question at fluffy bunny and move the disambiguation page there, but the editor was worried that this would eliminate the history of the page fluffy bunny. I'm not quite sure how to proceed and I'm a little afraid of ruining the histories. For right now I'm going to cut and paste the information from the disambiguation page to the main page for fluffy bunny and just redirect the disambiguation page there so the histories will be intact. Is that the proper way to do things? I'm sort of confused here. I figured that this way would leave both pages intact in case I royally botched stuff up and you need to fix anything. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 23:32, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!

Just wanted to say a quick thank you for fixing my edits and pointing me toward those resources. KingMurdoc (talk) 04:10, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for those links about editing and other guidelines on Wikipedia. It helped a lot.

Ska1962 (talk) 20:28, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Redirect delete

Would you be able to delete Theory of Everything (film)? It's obstructing a move I need to make, as no other film is called Theory of Everything and I have the article here. Thanks. Rusted AutoParts 00:45, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Tierra del Fuego

Please read my comment on my Talk page. Thanks.CorinneSD (talk) 15:21, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Your opinion, please

Hi, Graham, please have a look at my last edit at Uranus (9 October), which has been reverted. What do you think? Rothorpe (talk) 20:22, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Well, of course I asked you because I thought you would be unaware of the capital, but my investigations suggest that you may be using braille in addition to the screen reader and that that indicates caps. I just think it reads badly. I wonder what Corinne thinks... Cheers, Rothorpe (talk) 02:29, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

It's certainly clear, just awkward, I thought. Rothorpe (talk) 13:04, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

alt

The GA reviewer for Mass in B minor structure recommended to add "alt" text to images. What would you want to see for incipits? Would the link alone help or does the alt have to describe that it the music of the first vocal entries in a piece? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:20, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, will try the link first. Nominated for PR, first time I did such a thing. My image needs cleaning ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:37, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

I started, up to the first incipit. What do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:58, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Lyell Highway

is the pits between mount arrowsmith and queenstown, all curves and corners. Then there is road after it between Queenstown and Strahan... Even his eminence Prince Charles once passed comment about the road between Queenstown to Strahan as one of the worst he had ever travelled... Ah tassie, what a heartbreak ole place it is! satusuro 07:54, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

My favourite BOM location in western tasmania is Mount Read, Tasmania - I have been very close to but never to the top ( I dont think ) and i think its rain is better than Lake Margaret, Tasmania and Tully, Queensland where rainfall is over a metre a year. unless something has happened since the 1970's. satusuro 08:52, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Talking of lot's of rain: according to Temperate_rainforest#Pacific_temperate_rain_forests Mount Hood gets 2.5m of rain a year. XOttawahitech (talk) 18:44, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, that's a goodly amount of wet stuff as well! As I noted in is article, the rain gauge on the summit of Mount Bellenden Ker records an annual average of 8,312 mm. Further afield, we can't forget to mention Mawsynram or Cherrapunji either. Graham87 01:37, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

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Unprotecting of Plant

I propose that the Plant article is unprotected as it has been protected for a long time 81.178.209.207 (talk) 18:04, 25 October 2013 (UTC) Do not answer on my talk.

The correct place for this request is Wikipedia:Requests for page protection, and I happen to think this is a poor reason for unprotecting a high-traffic page. I wasn't the original protector of the article, anyway – I was only restoring its protection status after it had been deleted during a history merge. The editor who originally protected the article was Rkitko. Graham87 02:43, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

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Course template

Hi, Graham.

The course template goes on the article's Talk page, not the article page, as I understand the instruction here, which says: "add the course assignment template at the top of the talk page for each article". I am one of the course's Online Ambassadors. -- Ssilvers (talk) 03:41, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Garbo revision

Hi Graham, or Pierce! Looked at your revision and can't figure out what you did other than change the order of sources. Don't see relatinship to Green. Out of curiosity, can you explain/ Thanks,--Classicfilmbuff (talk) 21:50, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Copyedit

Hi, Graham. Thanks for this edit of Music education. I always like it when somebody improves my wording. --Uncle Ed (talk) 14:10, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

No worries, Ed! I like it when people copyedit my work as well. Graham87 14:17, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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Help on the Greek chorus article

Hi Graham,

I just made some major edits to the Greek Chorus article and have thus far only done in text citations. I cannot figure out how to move my references over from my sandbox without deleting the current references that existed before I made my changes. Also, I am having trouble figuring out how footnotes work .... Thanks so much for your help! Yona M. Corn (talk) 19:12, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Page importation

Hi Graham. I noticed you were really active on the Requests for page importation page and I thought I would go out on a limb and see if you could help me on the German Wiki here RE if I am doing things properly. It is difficult to navigate a Wiki in another language! I have a COI with Yelp and am trying to get a translated version of the English language article up on the German Wiki following whatever process I should follow per my COI. CorporateM (Talk) 16:44, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Hello CorporateM, I've fixed your template there. If I were the admin in this case I would deny your importation request because there is already an existing article with history at that title. (I'm not talking about actually copying the text, just using the importation function). It's not really my call though. Graham87 01:33, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Ugh, ok. I didn't really understand what the importation bit was for, but it's where an editor told me to go. The German Wiki I don't think has a COIN board, so I may need to find their Help page again. Google's translation tool seems to be down, so I'll be able to find my way to it when it's working again. CorporateM (Talk) 02:46, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

I just received

a little note from you regarding List of Icelanders and am wondering how you did that? I don't find it either on my talkpage or on the article talk page. Got my confused. Also, I am a patroller of lists (or so it sometimes seems) and frequently remove red linked names from the and have found "notable" as being a good word to use. Sometimes I get the argument that the red links serve as a sort of future wish list for articles and will occasionally let them go, but mostly I don't. There is a List of medallists (something like that) that I am about to perhaps begin to Slash and burn my way through. I am wondering what your thoughts on the subject is? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 14:58, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

It was a delightful note to receive, this luddite is a bit behind all this new fangled stuff. But can be taught. However tomorrow as early as is possible I'm off on a road trip, so have to pack etc tonight so I won't go exploring. Thanks for the note and for the link. Carptrash (talk) 04:39, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Input needed on new CheckWiki errors

As you are the expert on accessibility issues, you will be getting a notification to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia. We are looking to add new error checks. Currently, CheckWiki does look for some accessibility issues. Problems arising in section headers per Wikipedia:Accessibility#Headings are found and are fixed by a bot. I'm currently running the bot, but it was coded up by Scottywong. Finding small text is another example. Checkwiki checks if double small tags were given or if small tags were used inside a reference or image description. Bgwhite (talk) 01:33, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Sound list

Hi, sorry about the hyphens. The smaller files load much faster, don't you think? Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 03:47, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Sure a header template would be fine. I was thinking of tweaking the table format a bit too. See User:Anythingyouwant/Sound. Incidentally, the Capriccio app works nicely on my iPhone.Anythingyouwant (talk) 03:57, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Header looks good to me. I've never made one, or installed one, so I assume "begin with the letter 'Header'" customizes in place of the word "Header". Anyway, if you install the header in one of the files, then I'd be glad to do the rest, or you can. I would tweak the column headers in each file separately. Unfortunately, the search box does not find anything (e.g. Bach ) in any of the new files, but maybe it takes a few days for the new files to be recognized. Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 04:12, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

My tweaks to the column headers are all done now.Anythingyouwant (talk) 07:12, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Can you delete my old edits?

Hi, first off, I had gotten a name change to User:Blake a while back as the old user was inactive. However, for whatever reason, when the old account was moved, these two edits refused to budge(not sure on the specifics, this was 3 years ago). Because of this, on various statistics pages it looks like I, myself, joined Wikipedia back in 2001. This is incorrect, and I would most like for it to be fixed. The two edits of mention are [1] and [2]. If you could delete these edits, or move them to a ghost account somehow, that would be great. Or let me know the specifics on why they can't be moved. _Blake ^{(Talk·Edits)} 20:34, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank you! Glad the problem could be taken care of. I am sure you at least learned something out of this! haha _Blake ^{(Talk·Edits)} 05:21, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

/* Greetings and... belated thanks

Greetings Graham87. On going over my user page revision history just now, I see that the "thank" tag by your edits is still intact. I was certain that I had already thanked you, but as the evidence suggests not, just popping in to say sorry & thanks. Regards, --Technopat (talk) 23:21, 30 November 2013 (UTC)